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Article: Laura Ling's Aunt Anna relieved niece freed; Rutland relative has close family.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2009
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Byline: Lisa D. Welsh
PRINCETON - Anna Ling Pierce's niece is safely home in California, but Mrs. Ling Pierce still cries when she reads the letter Laura Ling wrote to her family from the guesthouse in North Korea where she was confined for more than four months.
"To my dear family ... Before bedtime I read your letters again. Each night I am thankful to have gotten through another day and each day when I wake up I hope it is bringing me closer to home," Laura Ling wrote in one of the two letters she was allowed to write during captivity.
Mrs. Ling Pierce said her niece was isolated, and there were many psychological and physical challenges, ...